Word: hispanidad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of his program to keep the fires of Hispanidad burning brightly in Latin American hearts, Dictator Francisco Franco maneuvered a law through the Spanish Cortes last year allowing Latinos to lay claim to vacant Spanish titles of nobility once borne by their ancestors. Since then, the project has languished- partly because of opposition from Spain's rank-proud Committee of Grandees. Last week, however, the government defied the grandees and published a list of 97 out of 400 available Spanish-American titles. They were available, that is, for a price. Claimants whose proofs of lineage were accepted would...
...Hispanidad is a curious, almost indefinable doctrine. Its present-day adherents preach that only by a spiritual union of the New World's Spanish-speaking countries with Roman Catholic Mother Spain can mankind be saved from godless Communists and heretical Anglo-Saxons. In Argentina, where the Peron regime until recently made much of its close kinship with Spain, the doctrine has won many a convert. But last week, hard on the heels of the failure of Argentina's trade agreement with Spain (TIME, April 25), a distinguished Argentine cleric was calling Hispanidad a lot of nonsense...
...Falange had set up its own form of Auslandsdienst to carry the gospel of Hispanidad to the New World and reestablish Spain as the dominant cultural, economic and political influence in Latin America. El Caudillo dreamed of empire. In this exuberant period, there must have been at least a half-dozen occasions when Falange extremists almost carried the day for war, for an imperialist adventure to unify and recreate Spain. But Franco always decided to wait a little longer...
...plenty of money, the support of thinly disguised Italian and German propaganda and sabotage organizations in Argentina and throughout Latin America. Perhaps more important than any of these is the support of the Church, which to many Argentines is unmistakably identified with the aims and progress of Hispanidad...
Lately the movement has received fresh and ironical support-from the U.S. Government itself. When Argentines read and hear that the U.S. is now appeasing Dictator Franco, they can hardly believe that Franco's Hispanidad is as bad as U.S. spokesmen make...